Temptation, Heat and Erotica in Film Noir
Body Heat was very much about that for me. What happens when a guy who has personal charm and has done well with women but isn't effective in the world runs into someone who's effective in the world?" - Lawrence Kasdan Some of the best Noir films tease us with the possibility of what may happen between men and women. The women are sultry. The men are bad boys. And the good men - once they meet the sultry women - they then go bad, too. In the 80s and then then 90s, a heyday for Neo Noir and great cinema in general, we were blessed with many cinematic gems that, with their dimmed lighting, reserved pacing and and intense actors, forced us, the viewers, to sit in those theater seats with great anticipation as to what will happen next. Will they kiss? Will they cheat? Will she kill? Will he die? The male actors who rocked these films most? Michael Douglas, William Hurt, Denzel Washington, Jeff Daniels. But it was the female actors who lured in and marked these men...